Sentence examples for previous common law from inspiring English sources

This duty, unlike the previous common law duty, at no point requires the trustee to act.

Commentators have agreed that this is largely a reiteration of the previous common law rule on the duty of care.

The Act introduced an element of liability for landlords who failed to maintain their properties and were as a result responsible for the injury of a non-tenant, something counter to the previous common law rule in English law.

Under Section 16, the Act applies to servants of the crown, while Section 17 repeals all previous common law and statutory offences relating to bribery, replacing them with provisions of the Act.

Chris R. Kyle, writing in the Journal of Legal History, notes that this is not the case; not only did the Statute of Monopolies only restate the previous common law, leading to no infringement upon the Royal Prerogative, James I was in the later stages of the bill supportive of its principles.

The Act repeals all previous statutory and common law provisions in relation to bribery, instead replacing them with the crimes of bribery, being bribed, the bribery of foreign public officials, and the failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery on its behalf.

The manner of the finding of the Hoxne Hoard by metal detector, and its widespread publicity, contributed to changing the previous system of common law for dealing with treasure trove into a statutory legal framework that takes into account technology such as metal detectors, provides incentives for treasure hunters to report finds, and considers the needs of museums and scholars.

(India like the UK follows common law, where previous judicial decisions have the power of legislation).

The report disposed of the previous idea of merging the common law and equity, and instead suggested a single Supreme Court capable of utilising both.

Instead of continuing previous attempts to synthesize civil and common law, they began to try to isolate and maintain whatever pockets of influence they had already established.

Writing for the majority in one of his most famous opinions, Justice Louis D. Brandeis rejected the notion of federal common law, that is, law based on previous federal court decisions.